This particular specimen is part of the staphylinid rove beetles, dating back to the Cretaceous period, around 90 million ...
However, scientists report that queen black garden ants (Lasius niger) eat offspring in a seemingly unappetizing state: when the larvae are infected with a fungus 1. By doing so, the queens ...
Beetles are everywhere, from our backyard to the deepest jungles. But with over 400,000 identified species – a quarter of all known lifeforms – scientists have long been puzzled by their ...
Rove beetles have been recently spotted in residential areas in Hoa Tho Dong Ward, Da Nang, central Vietnam. Photo: Truong Trung / Tuoi Tre Several residential areas in Da Nang City, central Vietnam ...
Although they used to be called turnip flies, they are actually true beetles. It is hard to see them in the soil and among vegetation. The larvae feed on the roots of plants, but the real damage is ...
A single convergent ladybug larva might consume several hundred aphids in the two weeks that it takes to grow fully. Alternative prey include whiteflies, beetle and moth larvae, and even fungi and ...
Rest assured, these insects — as well as their fat, imposing larvae — are completely harmless to us, even if they can render our fruit inedible. You will find fig beetle larvae in your compost ...
Well, death is a magnet for life. And there’s something down there. It’s a yellow-bellied burying beetle, hustling to hide this mouse, before, say, a raccoon gets it. It also has to work faster than ...
Why choose freshly burned forests? The simplest explanation is that their offspring, the beetle larvae, can only persist on the wood of burned trees. When a tree has been scorched by flame ...
Karl Rove: Mar-a-Lago is cheering after this ‘stupid’ White House maneuver Fox News contributor Karl Rove on Kamala Harris' upcoming visit to Arizona as the border remains a top issue for ...
Much has been said about mountain pine beetles in recent months as wildfires take their annual toll on Western Canada’s boreal forest. One researcher says, though, that while they can dry out ...
Fox News’s Karl Rove warned that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s advantages on issues like immigration and the economy is shrinking while Democratic nominee Kamala Harris has ...